Post is up a little earlier than expected, mostly because I've tried not to spend an hour or two editing it to within an inch of it's life.

Let's field some questions from the audience with this free time.

[quote=@TwelveOf8]There's little to nothing you can do to make people react the way you want them to. Even if you're doing everything right, they may react in a way that's completely wrong regardless.[/quote]

It's not that I'm wanting you to react in a particular way (because, goodness knows, you folks are plenty capable of surprising me), but it was more that I want to make sure that there are plenty of things for you to react [i]to[/i]. So when I write, I put things in that would make [i]me[/i] go "oh, I'd want to do something about that", and hope that other people would react to them too. There's not really a right or wrong way to react, because any reaction to any part of the post means things are happening and people are engaged, even if it's not a reaction I could've predicted.

Simply put - [i]any reaction is good[/i], and [i]not reacting is bad[/i]. If some detail I included in a post serves to keep the story moving [i]in any direction[/i], that's good, even if I didn't plan for that detail to be much of anything. If a post garners no reaction, if there's nothing to it that makes people go "[i]oh, I want to react to this![/i]", then it means I've goofed up, because it's breaking the back-and-forth flow of the game that it's my responsibility to maintain, If That Makes Sense [sup]TM[/sup]. Running off on some wild goose chase is preferable to standing around doing nothing!